An 1843 poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal describes how the Victorian circus employed a hogshead in a most unusual fashion.

Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

When the dinner jacket ( tuxedo in American English ) first came into fashion in the Victorian era, it was used as a less formal alternative for the tailcoat which men of the upper classes wore every evening.

Bloomsbury reacted against the social rituals, " the bourgeois habits ... the conventions of Victorian life "-its valorisation of the public sphere-in favour of a more informal, private-oriented focus upon personal relationships and individual pleasure: E. M. Forster lauded for example " the decay of smartness and fashion as factors, and the growth of the idea of enjoyment ".

To fill out the evening ( as long programmes were the fashion in Victorian theatre ), he needed another piece.

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With the Victorian fashion for seaside holidays, Looe had become a tourist town, with nearby Talland Bay being dubbed " the playground of Plymouth ".

The city was rebuilt between 1880 and 1890 in fireproof materials and in a more planned fashion, with characteristically ornate Victorian buildings, many designed by Charles C. Rittenhouse, the first practicing architect in Adams County and also mayor for ten years.

Drusilla's costumes were initially intended to be a " cross between a Victorian period look and the Kate Moss heroin chic fashion look ," says Landau.

Because of their multifarious history, sideburns may be seen as stuffily Victorian and ultra-conservative, a sign of rebelliousness, or merely an artifact of current fashion.

Popularly known as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, it was a guide to running a Victorian household, with advice on fashion, child care, animal husbandry, poisons, the management of servants, science, religion, and industrialism.

* Victorian Panorama: a survey of life & fashion from contemporary photographs ( 1937 )

Traditionally, Christian names were those of Biblical figures or recognised saints ; however, in the Gothic Revival of the Victorian era, other Anglo Saxon and mythical names enjoyed something of a fashion among the literati.

In Victorian wedding photographs, for example, the bride and groom are frequently dressed in the same fashion as other members of the bridal party.

Towards the late 1960s, male fashion became notably " foppish " in style, evocative loosely of the Georgian and Victorian eras.

Sidmouth remained a village until the fashion for coastal resorts grew in the Georgian and Victorian periods of the 18th and 19th centuries.

A woman's fashion, the Garibaldi shirt was begun in 1860 by the Empress Eugénie of France, and the blousy style remained popular for some years, eventually turning into the Victorian shirt waist and modern woman's blouse.

The new Victorian era fashion involved putting the batter into a basin and then steaming it, followed by unwrapping the pudding, placing it on a platter, and decorating the top with a sprig of holly.

Rasputina is a cello-driven band based in New York that is renowned for their unconventional and quirky music style as well as their fascination with historical allegories and fashion, especially those pertaining to the Victorian era.

Italian stonemasons finished its frontage in a mock Victorian fashion.

Spa fashion reached its peak in the Victorian era and many of the hotels in Llanwrtyd Wells date back to these times.

The Estate mainly comprises substantial houses, was built in the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House and was the work of local Victorian builder, Alfred Heaver.

The borough comprises a patchwork of extremely affluent as well as some less affluent neighbourhoods ; The areas of Fulham, Parsons Green, Brackenbury Village, Brook Green, Ravenscourt Park and the Riverside compose of highly expensive Victorian and Edwardian houses, contrasting to the areas of White City and Shepherd's Bush, which, though also containing gentrified areas, have a more diverse and edgy backdrop.

One is Biery's Port, located along the Lehigh River and named for an early family of prominence ; the other is known as " the mansion district ," and comprises Victorian homes once owned by wealthy residents.

Old Court, whose construction began in 1880 and is built in red brick in the Victorian Late Perpendicular Gothic Revival style, was largely designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and comprises seven staircases ( A to G ), together with a tower and gateway, Master's Lodge, Chapel, Hall, Kitchens, Music Practice Room, and Archives.

It comprises " the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America ", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association.

Earlsfield is a typical London suburb and comprises mostly residential Victorian terraced houses with a high street of shops, bars, and restaurants between Garratt Lane, Allfarthing Lane, and Burntwood Lane.

The housing stock largely comprises red-brick late Georgian and Victorian era terraces and much of the area lies within an architectural conservation zone.

Collier Street itself comprises several older farms or substantial houses which existed before the majority of the village's housing was built in Victorian times, and parts of the village are still named for these houses, for example Spitzbrook and Mockbeggar.

It comprises an eclectic mix of housing mainly from the Victorian, Edwardian, inter-war and late twentieth century periods.

It comprises farmlands, a 17th century farm house, out buildings and Victorian walled garden, and a 16th century chapel, forming an oasis of peace and tranquility, surrounded on three sides by ancient woodlands and the river Goyt which flows alongside.

The village comprises an old village at West Liss and the modern village, which congregated around the 19th-century Southern Railway station, which is largely Victorian and later.

New Bilton comprises mostly Victorian terraced housing.

The village is the site of a Victorian era preaching pit constructed out of a disused quarry: the pit comprises large stepped rings and a preaching area the size and shape of half a bandstand.

The castle comprises a tower house built in the late 15th century, and a 17th-century mansion, both of which were rebuilt in Victorian times.

Erewhon satirizes various aspects of Victorian society, including criminal punishment, religion and anthropocentrism.

Not all of these decisions succeeded in the Victorian context, and Phelps experimented with various combinations of Shakespeare and Davenant in his more than a dozen productions between 1844 and 1861.

This stabilizing synthesis of the Realist political and Romantic aesthetic ideology, was called by various names: in Great Britain it is the Victorian era.

These various thinkers were united by a distrust of Victorian positivism and certainty.

Prior to the Victorian era, courtesans were sometimes limited in their apparel by various sumptuary laws and were restricted in where they could appear at social functions.

Visually it was a mesh of various styles, ranging from 1930s Hollywood glamour, through 1950s pin-up sex appeal, pre-war Cabaret theatrics, Victorian literary and symbolist styles, science fiction, to ancient and occult mysticism and mythology ; manifesting itself in outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots.

The rocks contain various metal ores in small amounts: a few of these were mined in the Victorian period.

Alan Moore did likewise in his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book ( and its sequels ) in which various Victorian era literary characters meet and join up with the eponymous League ( though they are not descended from a single family ).

* Victorian era ( or period ), a term derived from the lengthy 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria and particularity various styles, ideas, and trends associated with that era:

* Saint Victorian ( disambiguation ), various saints

On the hillside above the river are situated the stone-built 16th-century hunting lodge at Lincoln Hill, many 17th-and 18th-century workers cottages, some imposing Georgian houses built by ironmasters and mine and canal barge owners, and many early Victorian villas built from the various coloured bricks and tiles of the locality.

Around the town there are various buildings from the Tudor, Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

One would also view a number of Victorian and Second Empire style homes of various colors.

They are written in first person, take place in the late Victorian era, and although every protagonist has connections to England, part of each book is set in various locations around the world — including China, Australia, Afghanistan, and Mexico.

Terry Deary said of The Terry Deary History Experience Park: " What I hope to build is a History Experience where I recreate authentic villages from various periods — Tudor, Roman, Victorian perhaps — with nothing of the 20th century in them ... They'll be enclosed in domes like the Eden Project in Cornwall so they'll be all-weather attractions and they will not be museums or theme parks ; they will be peopled by actors and the visitors can join in the never-ending re-enactments of the past — with all its horrible history flavour — over there is a pickpocket on trial for stealing ... is he guilty, do we hang him?

At Simonsbath, a restored Victorian water-powered sawmill, which was damaged in the floods of 1992, has now been purchased by the National Park and returned to working order ; it is now used to make the footpath signs, gates, stiles and bridges for various sites in the park.

Between 1966 and 1972 Garner worked as a high-school teacher at various Victorian high schools.

Hawthorn, Northcote, Standard, Victoria United, Victorian Railways and Williamstown dropped out within a year or so but Hawthorn, Northcote and Williamstown were all to return at various times.

At the intercolonial conference held at Sydney in November 1883 James Service, the Victorian premier, thought that Australia was ready for a real federal government, but Griffith, who was not prepared to go so far, moved and carried a resolution providing that a federal council should be formed to deal with the defence of Australasia, matters relating to the islands and Australia, quarantine, the prevention of the influx of criminals, and other matters of common interest to the various colonies.

* Wooden wands of about 60 " in length were popular exercise implements during the Victorian era, particularly in the U. S. A. and in Canada, being used to perform various flexibility and strengthening routines.

The area also houses various military and regimental museums, including the Aldershot Military Museum, housed in a red-brick Victorian barracks.

The Reverend Benjamin Waugh ( 20 February 1839 – 11 March 1908 ) was a Victorian social reformer and campaigner who founded the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) in the late 19th century, and also wrote various hymns.